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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
n alternate nights to different audiences. The people gathered around me; the bondholders gathered around him. It was evident that if he could not get the people away from me his votes would be scarce. He himself claimed to be of the aristocratic class in Massachusetts, and he attempted in his speeches to put himself on a level with the common people for the purpose of getting their votes, and his efforts afforded me infinite amusement as I replied to him. He went among the workingmen of Lynn, who are almost all shoemakers, and showed how well he knew the manner in which people liked to be approached by those who seek their votes. He undertook to answer a charge made against him of being an aristocrat and wearing white gloves and holding himself apart and above the people. He laid himself out in the speech in which he did this, and it was the most amusing one I ever read. He said in substance:-- Fellow-citizens, I am accused of being an aristocrat. It is said that I wear wh
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
staff, 896. cook, Jay, on the national debt, 935; on bank taxes, 944. Corwine, meddles in Farragut prize case, 1010. Constitution, The Ship, at Annapolis, 192-193. Courier, The Boston, 895. Courier, The Lowell, attacked by, 107-108. Covode, Hon., John, anecdote of, 580. D Dana, Hon. Charles A., Assistant Secretary of War, 687, 831; offers to pay Badeau's claim against Mr. Grant, 860. Dana, Richard H., Jr., Butler's opponent in congressional campaign, 921; speech in Lynn, 921-922; Butler's reply, 922; defeated, 922. Danville Railroad, cut, 651. Davenport, Lieut. John I., reports Smith's movements, 687,690; reports of, 701; on Butler's staff, 900. Davis, Jefferson, vote for, in Charleston Convention explained, 138, 142; interview with regarding secession, 159; might have captured Washington, 219-221; instigates burning of cotton, at New Orleans, 385-386; letter from Moore on Butler's force, 477; letter to General Smith regarding Vicksburg, 485; procl